[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 178 (Wednesday, September 13, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55283-55284]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-23418]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Inter Company Collaboration for AIDS Drug 
Development

    Notice is hereby given that, on May 26, 2000, pursuant to section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), the Inter Company Collaboration 
for AIDS Drug Development (the ``Collaboration'') filed written 
notifications simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal 
Trade Commission disclosing changes in its membership status. The 
notifications were filed for the purpose of extending the Act's 
provisions limiting the recovery of antitrust plaintiffs to actual 
damages under specified circumstances. Specifically, Collaboration 
member Ajinomoto Co., Inc. of Tokyo, Japan has withdrawn from the 
Collaboration. Although no other changes have been made in the 
membership of the Collaboration, Pharmacia & Upjohn Inc., of Peapack, 
New Jersey, the parent company of Collaboration member Pharmacia & 
Upjohn Company of Kalamazoo, MI, merged with a wholly owned subsidiary 
of Monsanto Company of St. Louis, MO, and Monsanto Company changed its 
name to Pharmacia Corporation. After these actions, Pharmacia & Upjohn 
Inc. remains the parent of Pharmacia & Upjohn Company and is now a 
wholly owned subsidiary of Pharmacia Corporation of Peapack, NJ.

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    Membership in the Collaboration remains open, and the Collaboration 
intends to file additional written notification disclosing all changes 
in membership.
    On May 27, 1993, the Collaboration filed its original notification 
pursuant to section 6(a) of the Act. The Department of Justice 
published a notice in the Federal Register pursuant to section 6(b) of 
the Act on July 6, 1993 (58 FR 36223).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on October 25, 
1999. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
section 6(b) of the Act on April 28, 2000 (65 FR 24983).

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 00-23418 Filed 9-12-00; 8:45 am]
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